Symplegades

This was caused by the meeting of two great rocky islands, called the Symplegades, which floated about in the sea, and constantly met and separated.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

-- the name you gave to the beautiful strait beyond the "Symplegades" of your voyage, in gratitude and in honor of the day on which your company reached it -- has become masculine in tribute to an American general.

The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901

Strabo p. 224 for this adventure.] [Footnote 1405: The "Symplegades" are referred to, where help was given by Athena, not by Hera.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

Vainly wasted were the throes thy children cost thee; vainly hast thou borne, it seems, sweet babes, O thou who hast left behind thee that passage through the blue Symplegades, that strangers justly hate.

Medea 2008

Argo passes between the Symplegades by the aid of Athena (528 – 647). —

The Argonautica 2008

WOULD to Heaven the good ship Argo ne'er had sped its course to the Colchian land through the misty blue Symplegades, nor ever in the glens of Pelion the pine been felled to furnish with oars the chieftain's hands, who went to fetch the golden fleece for Pelias; for then would my own mistress Medea never have sailed to the turrets of

Medea 2008

Argo passes between the Symplegades by the aid of Athena (528 – 647). —

The Argonautica 2008

Vainly wasted were the throes thy children cost thee; vainly hast thou borne, it seems, sweet babes, O thou who hast left behind thee that passage through the blue Symplegades, that strangers justly hate.

Medea 2008

WOULD to Heaven the good ship Argo ne'er had sped its course to the Colchian land through the misty blue Symplegades, nor ever in the glens of Pelion the pine been felled to furnish with oars the chieftain's hands, who went to fetch the golden fleece for Pelias; for then would my own mistress Medea never have sailed to the turrets of

Medea 2008

  Upon the blue Symplegades: long years —   Long, though not very many — since have done

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007